MS. Laud Misc. 78
Summary Catalogue no.: 1105
Contents
Language(s): Latin
(fol. 1r)
Fragment of chant with musical notation
Incipit: ||mentes te pusillos cum maioribus
Explicit: Alleluia Alleluia Conser||
Cf. cantus006235zb, 600280a
1. (fols. 1v-101r)
, Expositio super Epistolas Catholicas 2. (fos. 101v-103v)
Papal privileges to the Cistercian order
(fols. 101v-103r)
5 id. Dec, 1153, Jaffé 9772 (6744)
(fol. 103v)
5 id. March [sic] ⟨1171 × 1181⟩, Jaffé 14269 (9293)
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i + 103 + i fols., foliated i, 1-104
Dimensions (leaf): 263 × 175 mm.
Dimensions (written): 187 × 122 mm.
Musical Notation:
Notation on staves of four lines (fol. 1r)
Decoration
Coloured initials in red and yellow.
History
Provenance and Acquisition
Tentatively attributed by Palmer to the Eberbach scriptorium.
Characteristic Eberbach marginal annotations.
Possibly identifiable as d 34 in the Eberbach library catalogue of 1502.
William Laud, 1573-1645, 1638.
Part of his third donation to the Bodleian, 1639.
Record Sources
Description adapted (April 2019) by Matthew Holford (with additional description of fols. 1v, 101v-103v), from the following sources:
Nigel F. Palmer, Zisterzienser und ihre Bücher: die mittelalterliche Bibliotheksgeschichte von Kloster Eberbach im Rheingau (Regensburg, 1998), p, 286 [date, physical description, provenance]
H. O. Coxe, Laudian Manuscripts, Quarto Catalogues II, repr. with corrections, 1969, from the original ed. of 1858-1885 [contents, acquisition]
